However, it achieved considerable success in North America and in Europe, capturing the majority of the bit market share in several territories including the United States and the United Kingdom. The Genesis also benefited from numerous peripherals and several network services, as well as multiple first-party and third-party variations of the console that focused on extending its functionality. It can also play the complete library of Master System games when the separately sold Power Base Converter is installed. Sega first released the console as the Mega Drive in Japan infollowed by a North American debut under the Genesis moniker in Inthe console was released as the Mega Drive by Virgin Mastertronic The system supports a library of over games created both by Sega and a wide array of third-party publishers and delivered on ROM-based cartridges.
The Genesis is Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive.
